Aristotle

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

—Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

—Aristotle

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

—Aristotle

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

—Aristotle

Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.

—Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

—Aristotle

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

—Aristotle

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

—Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace.

—Aristotle

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

—Aristotle

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

—Aristotle

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

—Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

—Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

—Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

—Aristotle

Through discipline comes freedom.

—Aristotle

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

—Aristotle

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

—Aristotle

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

—Aristotle

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

—Aristotle

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

—Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

—Aristotle

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

—Aristotle

The secret to humor is surprise.

—Aristotle

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

—Aristotle

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.

—Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

—Aristotle

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, tragedy as better than in actual life.

—Aristotle

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

—Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

—Aristotle